( /54 ) already attained let us walk by the f me Rule, mind thefame things. This is the Text which gave the firf ócca(Ion unto this whole Difpute ; The Donors Intenti- on is fo indefenfible from this place, that I thought however he might perlift in the Defence of the Caufe he had undertaken, he would have forborn from leek- íng Comtenance unto it from thefe Words of the Apo- ftle. But it is fallenout otherwife, and I amhere in the firft place called unto an Account, for the Exceptions I put in, unto his Application of thefe Words of the A- pofile, inmy Vindication of the Non-conformihs. I will (pare the Reader as much as is poffible in the Repetition of things formerly fpoken, and the Tran- fcription of his Words or my own, without prejudice unto the Caufe itfelf. After a Reflenion of fome Obfeurity and Intricacy on my Difcourfe, he repeates my fenfe of the Words ac- cording unto his Apprehenfionunder four Heads; about which I íhall not contend, feeing whether he bath ap- prehendedmyMind aright or no, or expreffed the whole ofwhat I declared, belongs not unto the Merit of the Càuf in hand. Nor indeed do I yet know directly, what he judgeth this Text doth prove , or what it is that he inferrs from it , though I know well . enough what it is defigned to give countenance unto, and what is the Application that is madeof it. And there- fore he iffues his whole Difpute about it in this En- quiry, howfar the Apof les 'ule bath an influence on this cafe: But whofoever íhall come unto a fedate Confide- ration of this Text andContext, without Prejudice,with- out preconceived Opinions, without Interett in Parties òr Caufes, will judge it tobe a Matter of Art to apply them unto the prefènt Controverfie, as unto the Impofi- tton
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